Tuesday, September 29, 2009

I just had to thieve this one from true-schoolers Cheebah when I saw it today; some of you will be familiar with the footage from RTE's 'Reeling In The Years' series - hence the odd soundtrack. 1984 was the year when I, and everyone I knew, got serious about b-boying - for some reason hip hop became a vital force for many of us born in the 70s, thanks largely to the fact that we practically all knew someone older who was working on Thatcher's building sites, and they always returned home at christmas with cassettes - Morgan Khan's streetsounds, Kiss FM and the rest. When hip hop became trendy, then a joke, and then mainstream in the 90s, most of us had settled into whatever aspect of the elements we were most comfortable with, but had moved on. Still it was a genuine subculture of the estates and outskirts, visible to the rest of the population only on saturday afternoons in town and city centres. Much respect to The Dizzy Footwork Crew, wherever they are now. Those Nike suits were 1984's confirmation money for many of us kids. The new ones are a pale imitation.

Big Up Noodles on the latest installment in the FACT series - on this mix one of the busiest tweeters out there takes us back to the dawn of the decade. It's still warm enough to open the windows and blare out these memories across your respective cities, which is just what I'm about to do. Garage. Sigh.

Having been unable to reach Ben UFO in Galway a fortnight ago, I'm delighted to see he's throwing up the Ruffage Sessions again for download (its been a little while). A huge show as ever - join the thread HERE if you want any track id's...and you will...

The Heatwave keep the torch lit for the perfect link-up that is bashment and funky with this special podcast for XLR8R. After a summer of great Heatwave specials on Rinse FM, it's nice to have so many of them in one mix. This one's going to be on repeat till spring I reckon..

Here's the first installment in a new series of mixes from the LHF/United Vibes family, one of the most consistent crews out there; underground, unique and with serious weight and depth in the music they create and play. Check it below.

Monday, September 7, 2009

You (no doubt) have, if you are on twitter, encountered the term #yardcast. First I heard of it was DJ Oneman's transmissions from his gaff via UStream, and a recent high point was Bok Bok's Birthday Yardcast a little while back...

This being Ireland, we are bereft of original ideas, but we know when to jump on a good one and have some fun with it. So, this Saturday we're temporarily ditching the regular FM Broadcast - instead you can catch us streaming live from 6pm till the wee hours, hopefully playing a variety of decent sounds. After an absolutely shit summer weather-wise, we're having an Indian Summer of sorts this week, and as its the mott's birthday we're firing up the barbecue along with the turntables to celebrate. If you're about, drop in - if not, drop in on Ustream. If you want to chat with us through the broadcast, sign up to Twitter if you haven't already...

Unfortunately, Tu-Ki can't make it this time due to other commitments, but if all goes well sure we'll do it again and rope the local DMC champ back in. Who (we hope) will be joining us over the course of the night includes DMC champ DJ Mek, All City Records DJ OB, Power FM/Wobble/Bassbin's Don Rosco, Space2Pace/Reach's RickyForce, the man behind the counter at Freebird Records DJ Gon, Alphabet Set main man T-Woc, and of course the residents of Standard Radio and club night, DJ Halfdutch, Konspiracy, Sub One and Me.

Anyone lucky to be hovering around the west coast this weekend would be well advised to make their way down to The Warwick in Galway for the return of The Craic Pipe to the city of tribes. The man behind it all, Section5, will be joined by Micky (see post below) and none other than Hessle Audio co-founder and top selector Ben UFO. Info HERE.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

We had a break from the radio last week because of Standard#2, so this saturday night we're looking forward to a cheap night in, in the rain-free confines of Raidio Na Life. This week PCP is away again, so we'll be rolling the tunes out from 9pm GMT till midnight, in an extended audio binge. We're on 106.4 on the FM for those in the greater Dublin area. There's also the livestream, which usually works..

You can text the show on (+353)0866001064, or tweet HERE. Shout us in English/Irish, we will respond.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Opening with Sa-ra and closing with Sun-Ra, Kode 9's mix for Glasgow's LuckyMe also contains two of my (probably) favourite tunes of all time. Best to just ignore the fact that its september again, and enjoy a great selection.